Back in ancient times, a state had to prove its commitment and sincerity to peace by presenting the heads of its own War Party to their foreign counterparts.No chance. Here China received the Taliban from Afghanistan straight after meeting U.S. No.2 Wilson.
People are quite quick to forget that China didn't started, not wanted all these animosities between the two nations. It was the U.S. that had done this, and therefore it is down to the U.S. to undo this. And it can do this by not coming from a "position of strength".
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In more modern times, this could be accomplished with a modern purge of the USG; say, corruption and murder charges against pompeo, navarro et al. Any hypothetical american president who really wanted things to go back to the way they were, status quo antebellum would have to prove it with the castration of the China Hawks